Coco And Her Little Chanel Jacket

THE Chanel jacket is undeniably one of fashion's chicest and most enduring pieces and it is celebrated here with a new film from the label, documenting its journey from conception through to its most recent incarnations by Karl Lagerfeld. First created by the label's eponymous founder, Coco Chanel, the item was intended to free women from the constraints of the cinched-in silhouettes of the Fifties.

"The hardest thing about my work is enabling women to move with ease, to move like they're not in costume," she says in the film. "Not changing attitude, or manner, depending on their dress - it's very difficult. And the human body is always moving."

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The celebrated item was honoured by Lagerfeld last year, when he launched an international photography exhibition and book, featuring his friends and muses wearing a Chanel black jacket in a number of different ways.

The film is the fourth chapter from the fashion house's Inside Chanel film series, hosted on a retrospective and interactive website that explores and revisits key moments from the label's history.